What Are You Willing To Do?

What Are You Willing to Do?

This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:12-13

I always considered the members of my teams as family. But Tom Walter, the baseball coach at Wake Forest, has taken that “family” relationship to an entirely new level.

He donated a kidney to one of his players.

Coach Walter didn’t hesitate to volunteer to help Kevin Jordan, a freshman outfielder attending the school on a baseball scholarship. Kevin’s athletic skills had not gone unnoticed: the New York Yankees had picked him in the nineteenth round of the amateur draft. But even that news didn’t change the fact that Kevin was very ill. His first semester, Kevin was so sick from a rare kidney disorder that he was on a dialysis machine in his dorm room eight hours a day, attending classes and team practices when he wasn’t. He wondered if he would ever be able to play ball again.

But there they were, together at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, recuperating from the surgery and both thinking about future baseball seasons.

“It’s something you can’t imagine,” said Kevin’s father, Keith. “Somebody mentioned divine intervention when you look at how we got to Wake Forest. It’s just one of those things you can’t express in words.”

Actually, it is something we can imagine—because Jesus Christ did it for us.

You may not be in a situation like Coach Walter and Kevin, but you may be called to do something else. It’s not the “what” that is important; it’s the “what will you do” that is important. As a follower of Christ, you are called to love the way Christ loved—to lay down your all for others the way He laid down everything for you.

What will you do for others on His behalf?

Uncommon Key > “Love each other in the same way I have loved you.” As you strive to be like Christ, be ready to lovingly sacrifice something for others. It may be the most important thing He calls you to do.